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.(Nomoael.)

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APPARATUS NoN HANGING AND GLNANINGTNLNGNAPH oN TELEPHONE UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ALPHONS CUSTODIS, OF DSSELDORF, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR HANGING AND CLEANING TELEGRAPH OR TELEPHONE WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,255, dated November 26, 1895.

-Application led May 15 1895. Serial No. 549,402. (No model.)

To aZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALrHoNs CUsToDIs, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Dsseldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Hanging and Cleaning Telegraph or Telephone Wires, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to an apparatus by which telegraph or telephone Wires may be easily drawn across inaccessible places from pole to pole, and by which they may also be easily relieved from accumulated dirt, ice, or snow.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan,partly in section, thereof; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the scrapers attached.

The letters A A represent a pair of poles or uprights adapted for the support of telegraph or telephone Wires a. To the poles A A are pivoted the pulleys or rollers fr fr', around which passes an endless Wire, Wirerope, or band s. The line-Wire m to be hung is secured near the pole A to a hook b of endless Wire s, and then motion is imparted to the endless wire, so as to draw the free end of the Wire m toward the pole A', to which it is subsequently secured. To prevent sagging of Wire m, additional hooks b may be from time suspendedfrom wire s to engage wire m. If the entire line is provided with the endless Wires between the poles, the conducting-Wires may thus at all times be quickly hung or repaired.

used to free the line-wires from accumulated dirt or from ice and snow. When this cleaning operation is to be performed, the Scrapers are attached to the endless Wire and the latter is set into motion, so as to gradually draw the scrapers over the line-Wires.

My improved apparatus is thus capable of a double use, and will be found of great convenience in the construction and maintenance of a telegraph or telephone line.

What I claim is- The combination of a pair of supports with line Wires carried thereby, a pair of pulleys, an endless Wire passing around the pulleys and Scrapers secured to the endless wire and adapted to engage the line wires, substantially as specified.

In testimonyrwhereof I have signed this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHoNs cUsToDIs.

Witnesses z ERNEST ANDR, WILLIAM EssENWEIN. 

